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Siblings don't understand! Or am I being a bad parent?

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Hurtandconfused2016 · 24/06/2016 15:37

Okay so I'm a single mum of 2 (2 1/2 year old and 3 1/2 month old)
I currently live with my parents kids dad isn't on the scene.
So my mum and dad take the kids one night most weeks (not every week). To allow me to have one night of either sleep or go out with friends for dinner. They put them to bed and I get up for them in the morning.
Now my brothers and sister made comments to me last night about how it must be great to just dump the kids and go out. How it must be great to be a part time parent and get a night out/off from the kids.
These comments have been going on since I had my daughter. It's really getting to me and when I say anything to them they say that I get it easy being able to leave the kids with the grandparent. Any time my brother or sister have asked my parents to look after the kids they do. Including my dad watching them so they can work 3 days a week.

Am I a part time/bad mum for getting a break?

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BlackeyedSusan · 26/06/2016 19:51

given one sibling gets three times a week child care I think it is a bit rich of them to say you are dumping your kids with your parents. less often, for less long?

are they not dumping nephew with you then?

look at it logically. what they are saying does not make sense as it applies to them too.

bushtailadventures · 26/06/2016 20:00

When my DD was born we lived with my DM and she had her overnight occasionally so I could get some sleep. When DD was about 6 weeks old she sent me out to the pictures so I could do something that wasn't baby focused. Now I have a DGD I try to do similar for my DD, just seems a nice thing to do, and I have a lovely relationship with my dgd as a bonus.

It sounds very much like your parents enjoy being part of your dcs life, and would love to be more involved with your siblings DC too. I don't see any reason for you to feel bad about something so lovely.

Hurtandconfused2016 · 26/06/2016 21:52

I do have my nephew I help my parents when they have him by taken him to the shops or the park with my son.
It's just hurtful comment off them and I have now found out my brothers mil takes their 2 kids every Friday! So I don't know why they are commenting on me. I don't know if they know it hurts me as much as it does!

My parents love the kids the love having all their grandkids but they just don't get the chance with some of them

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Hurtandconfused2016 · 26/06/2016 21:54

My parents do try to make up for lack of family and support from the other side of the family as they haven't seen dd for 15 weeks and ds for 6 weeks so they try to be more involved

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